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Senior researcher at Citizen Lab investigating spyware makers like NSO Group and Paragon and their use against journalists, activists and dissidents.
Poland's National Prosecutor's Office says the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, which ran Pegasus, lacked full control of a system NSO Group operated. Investigators say NSO had technical access to harvested data but cannot say whether it obtained specific material.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker cannot see whom its customers target, and that halting updates leaves their systems ineffective in about 12 hours. Its promise to drop abusive customers therefore waits on outsiders finding the abuse first.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.
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Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
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Apple told TechCrunch it warned selected users across 110 countries on Thursday. For any org with journalists, diplomats or executives on iOS, the hardened profile is no longer an edge case.
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Access Now says helpline requests ran 30% to 40% above the usual post-notification surge, a record. Among the recipients: a Ukrainian soldier who assumed the alert was a scam.
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SHARE Foundation, Citizen Lab and Amnesty confirmed three infections among at least 14 Serbian targets around the March local elections, and the Android half of the wave was installed by hand during police custody.
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